The Washington Post, March 8th, 1987
THE MISALLIANCE By Anita Brookner Pantheon. 191 pp. $14.95 IN THIS NOVEL, her sixth, Anita Brookner returns to the situation and themes that dominated her first four. The principal subject of her fiction, though she departed from it briefly in Family and Friends, is the plight of the intelligent and sophisticated woman who has been denied, through whatever quirk of fate, the pleasures of romantic and physical love. But in the case of Blanche Vernon, the protagonist of The Misalliance, Brookner provides a twist that gives new meaning to this situation; the fault is not always in our stars, The ...
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